THE COLLECTIONS 



The collections of the Museum will be found 

 grouped under the following heads : Geology, Bot- 

 any, Zoology, Anthropology. And under these 

 heads the collections will be grouped in the following 

 series : 



Descriptive series, illustrating the meaning of terms 

 used in describing objects in that division. 



Synoptical series, showing examples and the dis- 

 tinguishing characters of the principal subdivisions 

 of the larger groups. 



Systematic series, showing in greater detail the 

 classification of objects in each class. 



Morphological series, displaying the external forms 

 of objects, their internal structure or anatomy, and 

 their minute structure or histology. 



Historical series, revealing the stages in the de- 

 velopment of the individual — ontogeny, or of a branch 

 or family — phylogeny, or of life as a whole; this in- 

 cludes embryology, the metamorphosis of animals, 

 paleobiology, etc. 



Distributional series. This series, intended to show 

 the natural occurrence or distribution of forms, in- 

 cludes most of the exotic animals of the Museum. It 



